Bugatti Veyron Cake

This is yet another car cake but this time with part of the Sunderland Football Club on the bonnet. A strange shaped car and a challenge the logo is painted with black food colouring and the silver parts with the edible silver paint again.

Porsche Boxter Cake

Again another car cake, I'm trying to get them out there while I can :) This one was a almost black, slightly purple, soft top Porsche Boxter. Again done in the similar way as the other car cakes but this time as it was a soft top the roof was painted with black food coloring to give the matte effect of the material after I had sprayed the car with mother of pearl. This one was vanilla again.

On this cake you will see the windows are white but I have put a wash of light blue food coloring over them to give a kind of glass glaze effect, just adds a little more detail to it.

Beach Buggy Cake

This was the first ever novelty cake I ever did! It was for my dads 50th birthday 4 years ago. I had no idea what I was doing but I got there in the end. Made many many terrible mistakes but my dad was so pleased! I felt like I had really accomplished something :)

The reason a Beach Buggy was chosen as the cake for my dads 50th is this... They had a Beach Buggy before I was born and sold it to be able to get a deposit for a mortgage. When I was bout 14 years old my Dad found a Beach Buggy the same make and modal as the one he sold and decided to buy and refurbish it. I always swore I would be old enough to drive it before he managed to get it back on the road as you have to be 25 or over to drive a classic car which this is classed as. I'm 30 this year and he still hasn't finished it! Its a little joke in the family :)

So for his birthday I wanted to give him at least one finished Beach Buggy!

Jag E Type Cake

This cake is made in the same was as the other car cakes, this one was one of the first I had ever done that needed to try and look realistic. The silver trim is an edible paint you can get from cake decorating shops but is a nightmare to put on as it gunks up really quickly.

Again sprayed in mother of pearl, and to give you an idea of the final size that is a 30cm ruler just in front of the car, so its a reasonable size.

Ferrari Car Cake

This cake was a vanilla and jam cake. I start the car cakes off by baking an 8 inch by 12 inch slab of cake, and then I divide the cake into 3 sections. 2 which are roughly 5 inch's wide and the smaller piece is then cut to make the top of the car.

Then its just a matter of shaping the cake best you can depending on what type of car you are doing. I find that usually using a really thick vanilla butter icing is the best thing to get all the curves and dents on the vehicle. Believe it or not I have some plasticine modeling tools that I use. (They have never been used on plasticine so no worries there).

I would leave the cake to cool in a fridge for about a minimum of 2 hours, then apply the fondant icing. I find to get it as smooth a possible and then work back into it, to shape the doors and windows and so on. At this point I would recommend popping it back in the fridge for another hour at minimum to let the fondant set a little.

I then tend to cut the windows out using a craft knife (for cake use only), and then roughly cut a piece of black or white fondant for the windows and pop it in, trimming where needed. I do the same for the wheels and the lights and some times if there is a grid on the front. Bumpers and little wing mirrors with handles and wheels all get made and put on as you make them.

To put a finishing tough on the car cakes I have an air brush and compressor. I mix a little 'Mother of Pearl' Powder with some water and then air brush the cake before I put things like the registration or any piping detail on.

 Oooo, Red!

So there we have a car cake in the shape of a Ferrari. Please enjoy.